Random sound of the day
Single hit on an old Zildjian crash cymbal, recorded with a stereo pair of AKG C414 XLII's.
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2020 in numbers
January 15th, 2021Hi everyone, Welcome again to our traditional year in numbers post in which we give you some statistics about last year’s Freesound activity. As usual, we will show some general statistics similar to those shown in previous years’ posts, and … Continue reading → Read Full Entry
Community update December 2020
December 28th, 2020Hi everyone, Welcome to a new community update post! We just realised that we didn’t do any community update posts for the last year 🙁 However, we’ve had some activity in the blog through the guest blog posts (and we’d … Continue reading → Read Full Entry
SIAS project: Sound Art in Colombia
July 6th, 2020[Guest Blog post by Jorge Mario Díaz Matajira, director of the SIAS project] SIAS stands for “Information System about Sound Art in Colombia” (from the spanish “Sistema de Información sobre el Arte Sonoro en Colombia”). SIAS (http://uan.sainethost.com/) is a project that … Continue reading → Read Full Entry
Barcelona Confinement Soundscape
April 29th, 2020[Guest Blog post by Ilaria Sartori and Gianni Ginesi] Dear fellow Freesounders, May we introduce Barcelona Confinement Soundscape, a collaborative soundmap and soundscape-related network of researchers, artists and neighbors who stay home and actively listen, record and reflect on soundscape … Continue reading → Read Full Entry
15 years of Freesound!
April 4th, 2020Today, 5th of April 2020, is the 15th anniversary of Freesound. Incredible, isn’t it? we couldn’t have imagined, when it all started back in 2005, that Freesound would become such a reference website for sharing Creative Commons sounds, worldwide. Freesound … Continue reading → Read Full Entry
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One really bad file/sound name. Yes it is! What is it? Some light techno loop?
Sunset (in half an hour) at the river Maas in the Netherlands. No wind. A cargo ship appears from left ...

A short but intense afternoon hailstorm in Portland Oregon. Microphones: Sennheiser MKH 8020sp Recorder: Zaxcom Maxx Recordist: Tim Kahn